England defender Jones missed United’s nine matches in April with a broken toe inflicted by Smalling during training with their national team in March before the latter then suffered a knee injury.

Manager Jose Mourinho was unhappy with the pair during their recoveries but Jones and Smalling could now be available again after Bailly suffered an ankle injury during the Old Trafford draw with Swansea .

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“I don’t think they will,” Mourinho replied when asked if the duo would be available in midweek. “That’s my personal opinion, I don’t think they will but I know that the players I choose will give everything, so it doesn’t matter if I go with Darmian central defender, if I go with Carrick or Axel, I trust the boys.

Mourinho was reluctant to criticise his players after Sunday’s draw with Swansea over the fixture congestion in recent months.

“It’s a consequence of our success but it’s also of the calendar” he said of United’s latest stalemate. “You cannot be punished because we play the League Cup final, you play the final and then you have to play the game midweek, you have to play, why you don’t stop the competition when you play the final? Why when people plays FA Cup semi-final everybody is not also, you know?

“You accumulate in relation to the people that is more successful, in the end, in relation to the FA Cup this season, you don’t punish too much the four teams in the semi-final because they are not in Europe, so in relation to the FA Cup semi-finals these teams were not very much punished.”

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Mourinho then reflected on the fixture dilemma United would have encountered had they reached the FA Cup semi-finals, which would have postponed their game at Burnley with no remaining free midweek slots.

“But imagine if we were also in the FA Cup semi-final,” he added. “Which we should because we should, so imagine if we go to the FA Cup semi-finals, we will be playing Tottenham the last week, so when we played Burnley, that game would also to be played later. When? When? When? When will we be playing that game against Burnley?

“Because until the end of the season we are going to play every two or three days, so when would we be playing against Burnley? After the FA Cup final? In June? In next pre-season? When would we be playing this game?

“So in the end it was a bless that we didn’t play the FA Cup semi-final but we go through the same problem, you are punished for doing well and if we beat Celta, we have the final - in this moment it is obviously hypothetical - but the Europa League final is on the Wednesday and we play against Crystal Palace on the Sunday and before that we play Southampton away two days before.

“So they want us to play the final, and with all respect with Celta - it’s a hypothetical situation - that we would be playing the final in disaster consequences.

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“So again maybe this result is also a bless, because maybe I can bring Nicky Butt and his team to play against Crystal Palace. And hopefully Crystal Palace doesn’t need a game to stay in the division because it would be very, very bad if they needed the points for us to play with the Under-23s.

“So it’s difficult. But again the players they give everything, I’m very happy with that.”